I have been so behind on my e-mails, my letters, and return calls, but most importantly I've been so behind on my dissertation. I'll try and catch up now that my allergies have cleared.
To that end, I wanted to share a meal from a few days ago. We had as the main dish pork belly with moyashi (bean sprouts), it was quite good although I added a bit too much spice. I served it with the carrot-daikon salad and the first okra of the season! I love okra. This was fresh and nice, topped with a miso-sesame sauce.

I've been wanting a bit of dessert even though I'm not eating sugar (although I failed at that this weekend, I'm back on the no-sugar wagon as of Wednesday). The other day I decided to make purin (flan) with honey. It worked very well, although the texture was a bit strange. The purin got so fluffy! It poofed up, and then when I spooned the sauce onto it collapsed. Which was OK, because I had the sauce on it.

It's a honey-brandy-prune sauce. I was a bit skeptical at first, but I love prunes and their density went perfectly with the brandy and the purin. I loved it. I could have eaten the brandy prunes mixed in yogurt, mixed in anything. I will definitely make this again.